Accertify Tallies Agentic Checkout and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 10/15/26 – Digital Transactions
- Accertify Inc. released a post outlining the distinction between agentic shopping and agentic checkout, concluding that agentic checkout, when an AI completes a purchase on its own, is less than 1% of transactions measured in basis points per Accertify data.
- Independent sales organization Deposyt expanded its partner program to three ways for participants to earn recurring revenue. Deposyt recently became a Square reseller, too.
- Spade, which provides clearer information for consumer card statements, launched Spade Prediction, a product suite for banks and fintechs that uses a foundation model Spade trained on payments behavior and verified merchants for transactions.
- Account-to-account payments specialist Sionic said a new partnership with Unfiltered Ink Media LLC, a consulting and media company for the hospitality industry, will see Unfiltered act as a referral source for Sionic and its Instant Bank Pay service, which uses FedNow and RTP to enable real-time A2A payments.
- Corporate card and spend management company Ramp announced a $1.85 billion primary financing round led by Dragoneer Investment Group. The round valued the company at $60 billion.
- Three payments companies—AnyCard, Lifestyle, and Savvy—have agreed to merge as one firm called Norell to offer gift card processing and reward programs in the U.K., Europe, and North America. Backing comes from Codex Capital and existing investors.
- Agentic-commerce and payments platform Fragment announced it raised $12 million in a funding round led by Firstmark, with participation from BoxGroup.
- Payments-technology provider Cliq has reached a multi-year agreement to serve as a third-party payment processor for Tulsa, Okla.-based Vast Bank, a nationally chartered bank, allowing Cliq’s clients to access ACH payments backed by the bank.
- Chargebacks911, a provider of technology for chargeback processing and dispute management, has appointed Brad Wiskirchen chief commercial officer and chief executive of the company’s sister brand FI911. Wiskirchen was founding CEO of Kount, which was acquired by Equifax in 2021.
- Cross River Bank said it will integrate Ripple’s RLUSD dollar stablecoin into its proprietary core operating system, supporting transactions on the XRP ledger, a public blockchain.
